Wrap Up
The Stress Equation was created as a tool to shift focus away from individual coping strategies and onto systemic issues and company strategies. Stress is too big a problem for us to solve by addressing our individual shortcomings; we need to look at the organizational root cause and solve it there.
The Stress Equation has three variables that interact to describe the causes of stress:
- Pressure (having a lot of things to get done)
- Complexity (dealing with complex problems or contexts)
- Security (having to deal with conflict)
We need to understand all of these variables to get the full picture of stress from an organizational perspective.
But before we move on to the first variable of the equation, Pressure, let’s get acquainted with team ...
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